Comments on: Artificial intelligence

By: On perversion « The Tar Pit

On perversion « The Tar Pit — Sun, 01 Mar 2026 16:34:59 +0000

[...] AI: a perversion of knowledge, and of thought. [...]

By: AI and the tech serf « The Tar Pit

AI and the tech serf « The Tar Pit — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 19:51:45 +0000

[...] plurious discussions on the subject of AI as it is understood today, it occurs to me that so far no one has really sat to seriously talk about the so-called [...]

By: spyked

spyked — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 18:16:16 +0000

I reviewed this today because a friend of mine showed me a bunch of tools he wrote using Claude. The striking thing was that the code was entirely intelligible and amenable to changes, and while the friend in question had to spend a couple of hours to do some fiddling to make said tools work, the fact is that, well, they work! That's a whole lot more than I can say about some of the shit that I wrote.

So I don't know... I stand by all my words above: this thing is going to get us stuck in a local maximum for quite a while now, 'cause now who's going to do any work to come up with something qualitatively better than LLMs once we all have LLMs. The only major problem with them remains resource usage, but that'll be simply circumvented by adding more resources to building LLMs at larger scales instead of, say, feeding bipedal monkeys. And you thought Bitcoin was wasteful, heh.

Anyway, I really don't know, but I'm beginning to think that this new AI really is a sort of expert system, only this time around it's based on fancy statistical data processing algorithms instead (or along with) ultra-sophisticated search and planning algorithms. It certainly seems useful to able and competent folks, but I guess I'll have to try it out in order to make up my mind.

By: spyked

spyked — Sat, 07 Sep 2024 15:54:57 +0000

The problem with AI is that while it's very efficient at giving solutions to problems that have been solved before, it's absolutely terrible at tackling any sort of new problems.

Caveat emptor.

By: On science « The Tar Pit

On science « The Tar Pit — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 16:38:47 +0000

[...] at the heart of something called "inductive" reasoning. This is through no coincidence what the AI folks are trying to achieve: build a program that is a sort of tabula rasa, then feed it with a [...]

By: spyked

spyked — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 19:36:59 +0000

So today I was watching some random internet dood discussing arbitrary "features" of the AI sorts, such as: the user draws a doodle of a cat and AI makes it into a cubist "artwork"... anyway, I was watching that and it struck me: AI is really the religious pantsuit dream, because it can spawn arbitrary artifacts out of anything that you can possibly conceive!

For better or worse, I for one think that this particular kind of magic is going to stay with us for a while.